Barin potato variety, description, characteristics and reviews, as well as features of cultivation

Varin Barin appeared recently, it is still not widely used in private gardens, however, it has already gained a reputation for potato chips. This indicates not only the suitability of tubers for the preparation of chips, but also a high yield. Indeed, for commercial purposes and on an industrial scale, only highly productive varieties are grown.

History of Barin Potatoes

The variety is listed in the State Register of Breeding Achievements since 2015. The applicant and patent holder is the All-Russian Research Institute of Potato Lorch, but the originators, in addition to this Institute, several companies began at once: "Ozyory", "Element M", "Vladimir Vegetables", "Belyaevka", "Agropack", "SPK them. Lenin "," Suzdalagroprom ", as well as the Agricultural Academy. Timiryazev. Originators are responsible for the safety of the variety, have the right to grow and sell seeds.

A significant role in the creation of Barin potatoes was played by the Ozyory farm (the city of Lakes of the Moscow region), which is engaged in the cultivation of vegetables and their processing.

In 2014, Ozyory CJSC launched the production of potato chips under the Barin brand. A special variety of the same name was developed for them, which has special taste qualities.

On the video channel "Moscow Region Today" in 2017, news came out that Barin is the first and only Moscow region brand of chips. Barin chips have passed variety tests and are allowed to be grown in only one region of the Russian Federation - the Central. It is here that he shows all his positive varietal characteristics.

Grade description

Barin is a table potato of medium maturity. From seedlings to harvesting takes 90-100 days. Bushes grow tall, semi-spreading, shoots can lie on the ground. Leaves are small or medium in size. During flowering, potatoes are covered with purple corollas.

The variety is resistant to cancer, wrinkled and banded mosaics, but susceptible to the golden nematode, the tops and tubers can be affected by late blight. Barin's marketable yield is higher than the standard one - 248–303 centners are harvested per hectare; the maximum rate is recorded in the Tula Region — 381 centners / ha.

Characteristics and purpose of tubers

Barin's potatoes are oblong, oval, the average weight of each is 90–125 g. The skin is cream in color, the flesh is white. The shelf life of the variety is 96%, that is, almost all potatoes are preserved until spring.

Tasters of the State Commission assessed the taste as excellent. The advantage of the variety is its high solids content, which is appreciated in the production of chips. The less water there is in tubers, the greater the yield of finished products, because crisp is a dehydrated product. In addition, in Barin there are few sugars that are caramelized during frying. Chips are tender, melting in your mouth.

Another plus is that the tubers do not blacken after heat treatment. In home cooking, Barin is suitable for making soups, fried potatoes, mashed potatoes.

Growing Potato Barin

In the Central region, as in most of Russia, potatoes are traditionally planted in May, by this time the ground should warm up to 10–15 ° C. You can focus on folk signs: dandelions have bloomed and bird cherry - it's time to plant. A month before, remove the seed tubers from the repository for germination.

Video: potato germination rules

Prepare the land for landing in advance. Choose a sunny area, good predecessors: cabbage, legumes, pumpkin. As soon as the soil thaws and dries out, dig it up, adding 1–2 tbsp per 1 m². l superphosphate, potassium sulfate and urea. You can use the complex fertilizer nitroammophos.

Mineral fertilizers are often replaced by natural ones: 1–2 buckets of humus or compost and 0.5 l of wood ash per 1 m². If there is a shortage of organic matter, put in a hole a handful of humus and a tablespoon of ash or add store mixes for potatoes according to the instructions: Gumi-Omi, Bogatyr, etc. Landing pattern for Barin - 70x30 cm, embedment depth - 8-10 cm. Already at this stage, treat tubers and holes from the Colorado potato beetle and wireworm with the preparations: Tabu, Aktara, etc.

Germinated potatoes sprout in 5-7 days. If sprouts appeared when there is still a risk of return frosts, cover them entirely with loose soil, raking it from the row-spacings.

Further care consists of standard steps:

• Water once a week and abundantly to wet a lump of earth to a depth of 30 cm. Barin responds to watering by active growth.
• 10-14 days after the emergence of seedlings, feed them with nitrogen-containing fertilizer: a solution of urea, ammonium nitrate or an infusion of organic matter (litter, mullein, nettle). In the phase of the appearance of the buds, give one more top dressing (it is possible by leaves), but not with nitrogen, but with a complex fertilizer: BioGumus for vegetables, Fertika, Agricola, etc.
• From the moment when the bushes rise above the ground by 15–20 cm and before flowering, carry out two hills with moist earth, that is, you need to do this after rain or watering. If there is a drought and there is no possibility to water, then it is impossible to spud! It is only possible to loosen aisle shallow. Experienced vegetable growers say that loosening replaces watering: there is no crust on the surface, there will be no cracks, moisture through them will not evaporate, but will remain in the ground.
• Before closing the tops in the rows, mulch the row-spacing ground or loosen it after each rain and watering.

Proceed to the digging of potatoes for storage when the peel ripens, that is, it coarsens. To check this, carefully remove the potato from under any bush you like, rub its surface with your fingertips. If the peel is easily peeled off, then it is too early to dig. But you can’t overdo the tubers in the ground, at the end of summer - in the autumn, late blight strikes the tops of the leaves, if you do not dig it in time, it will go to the ground and the tubers.

Protection against diseases and pests

I grow at least 3-4 potato varieties on my plot. I look after and protect everyone equally from diseases and pests according to the same scheme. All potatoes grow well, do not get sick, are stored until spring, do not rot and do not blacken from late blight. I thought that my varieties are stable. But once I didn’t have enough seed tubers, I borrowed it from relatives. It was already in the midst of landings. Unlike hers, she didn’t prepare someone else’s potatoes, she simply threw them in the ground and buried them. As a result, it was the only variety that caught late blight. So I made sure that my technology for the preparation and protection of seed tubers is effective.

In the fall, I select tubers the size of a chicken egg from the most productive bushes for seeds. Be sure to wash mine in a solution of copper sulfate and lay it out for landscaping at partial shade. If spread out under the bright sun, brown spots will appear on the tubers - burns, they will no longer be of any use: they will not survive until spring or sprout. In the spring I take out seed potatoes, inspect again, remove rotted or dried out and germinate in the light.

During planting, tubers, already laid out in their holes, are sprayed with Tabu from pests. Bushes for the entire time of cultivation 2-3 times for prevention I process from diseases and the same from Colorado beetle: the first - when the bushes grow to 15–20 cm, the following - according to the instructions for the drug, usually after 7–10 days. From diseases on potatoes I use HOM or any fungicide that remains after spraying the garden: Horus, Skor, etc., from the Colorado potato beetle helps Aktara. I tried other drugs so that the pests were not addictive, and almost lost my potatoes, returned to Aktare - the bugs disappeared.

It is interesting that I cultivated the bushes of new potatoes along with the rest, the difference was only in the preparation of seeds, but she fell ill. Obviously, already infected seeds got into the wells, fungi lived on their peel and in adhered pieces of dirt late blight, they got into the soil on the site, so preventive treatment of the tops turned out to be ineffective. In autumn, I washed seed tubers of this variety in a solution of vitriol and planted greenery. On that plot of land the next year, potatoes were not planted. Now my potato is not sick again.

Barin, in addition to late blight and the Colorado potato beetle, has another worst enemy - the cyst-forming golden nematode. You can detect it during digging: on the roots of the potato you will see small balls of golden color. These are cysts from which small worms come out. They parasitize on the roots, suck out juices, the potato bush does not grow, turns yellow and dries out, if tubers are formed, they are small.

For Barin, due to susceptibility to the golden nematode, crop rotation is especially important. In the fall, after digging potatoes, nematodes remain in the ground on plant debris, dangling roots. With the onset of spring, pests settle on newly planted tubers. Without crop rotation, receiving food from year to year, nematodes multiply greatly, the land becomes unsuitable for growing any kind of potato, even the most stable.

In addition, one of the components of the fight and prevention of the nematode is the autumn deep plowing. After harvesting, remove from the site and destroy all the tops, the remains of the roots and small non-marketable tubers. Dig the earth, closing up the crushed stalks of calendula, marigold, and sweet clover into it. In extreme cases, if there are a lot of cysts, treat the soil with chemicals: BI-58, Nematicide, Nemabakt.

Every 5-6 years, update Barin's seed material: buy from growers or grow your mini tubers from seeds. For personal use, this can and should be done.

Gardener recall

Now 3 varieties are growing: some Dutch (18 years ago brought seed from the field), Red Scarlet and Barin. The most delicious was Barin. Past rains have had a very beneficial effect on growth. And although late blight has already appeared, I think it will still be idle before the end of August.

Potato Barin is a commercial variety that is interesting for amateur gardeners. The main advantages: high yield, excellent taste of tubers, good keeping quality. When growing, it is worth emphasizing the prevention of diseases and pests.